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The Big Tease
Rating: Fair

Distributor: Warner Brothers
Director: Kevin Allen
Running Time: 96 minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: January 28, 2000
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Chris Langham, Mary McCormack, Donal Logue, Larry Miller, and David Rasche.
  Critique:  This film doesn't aspire to do much more than allow you to have a good time and feel relatively furfilled.  It almost accomplishes that.  It has it's share of good laughs and surprising situations.  One of the problems though with 'Tease' is that it is powered by way too many movie cliches, and its climax is not only totally expected, but a little bit boring.
     The man directing the documentary on MacKenzie is dry and funny, serving as a great counter part to our clueless hero hair stylist.  His half lover, half friend publicist who aids him in all his attempts at glory in the hair styling championships has her moments.  Although the script is at times insulting, especially towards the end, our actors always keep us forgeting we're watching a film in their off-beat, but very ripe performances.  Don't get me wrong you shouldn't expect anything earth shattering, but I felt furfilled with the all around performance of the cast.  The directing isn't anything special, but Allen does his job to the extent the script allows him to.  He didn't use any creative or glorious methods, but I wasn't complaining.  The script is what really hurt the movie, it seemed everyone else had their hearts in it.
     Additionally, the film has a sort of grade B feel to it, and although some might excuse that because it's an independent flick I feel that since indies have other benefits they should be able to let us forget about that feeling or surpass any doubts in that respect.  Altogether nothing great, and in the end pretty weak.

               by supernothingman,
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Plot:  Crawford MacKenzie (Craig Ferguson) is a Scottish hairdresser who believes he has been invited to a world wide hair dresser competition to compete when he has in fact been invited to watch.  An American is doing a documentary on him, and serves as someone for whom he can spew jokes at.  MacKenzie has quite an ego and decides that he will compete in the competition and pulls out all the stops to do so and partakes in quite an adventure.  This adventure includes him befriending Sean Connery's publicist, who helps him gravely and in return he helps her gain back her confidence as a woman.
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